Well, almost. Two days from now, on March 20, it’ll officially be spring. Anyone else doing a happy dance? I have filed our tax returns, the geranium seeds I planted last week have sprouted, and we’re closing in on Palm Sunday and Easter. It kind of creeps up on a person, doesn’t it? I’m just…
I have a printed book for every year since 2008 containing my blog posts. Recently, I pulled out the earliest ones for a wander through those days. In September 2008, I wrote about stumbling upon a book one weekend when I was away from home, staying up all night to read it and afterward setting…
Have you heard about Zoox? I hadn’t, until yesterday when I saw reference to it on Christine’s blog and went down a rabbit hole investigating. In a nutshell, Zoox is a self-driving robo taxi owned by Amazon and summoned using an app. It’s completely driver-less; the design makes that clear with a vehicle that has…
They arrive in early January, two books full of my writing from the previous year. Every year since 2008 there’s been one, and this year there’s a second volume with my poems. One book goes on the shelf next to the others; the poetry one remains on the table beside my chair. I think I…
It was -16C when I got up yesterday morning—the first one in March. This morning, it’s-1C. I’m not sure if that qualifies as either a lion or lamb, but what it is to me is an exhale. We made it. The worst of winter is behind us. We’ve come through the dark months and there…
We’re almost two months into this year that seemed shiny with possibility just a few weeks ago. Anyone else feel like the shine tarnished almost as soon as 2026 was out of the gate? Eight weeks ago, we were setting intentions, loose as we may have held them at the time, and basking in the…